She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.